everybody knows that abusive parents create abusive children...

they don't happen by accident...

it's a sickness...

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'wid ma mind on ma money an' ma money on ma MIND!!!!!!!

Do Da Due!!!

RUFF!!!

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Originally posted by futuresobjective:
A buddy of mine sent this to me figured I would post it. An explanation of the war in Iraq to a child. If you ask me it was a little much for a kid, and it lacks the many reasons behind the war, but still I thought it to be a little moving.
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Don't close your blinds

> > The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at
>war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband
>and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to
>serve and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would
>give him a good explanation.

> > My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go
>stand in our front living room window. He said "Son, stand there and
>tell me what you see?"

> > "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.

> > "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the
>United States of America and you are President Bush."

> > Our son giggled and said "OK."

> >
> > "Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every
>house and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.

> >
> > "OK Dad, I'm pretending."

> >
> > "Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and pretend
>you see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he has her by the
>hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her
>in the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to
>death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are
>screaming and crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they
>are kids and they are afraid of their father. You see all of this,
>son.... what do you do?"

> > "Dad?"

> > "What do you do son?"

> > "I'd call the police, Dad."

> >
> > "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations. They take your
>call. They listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What
>do you do then son?"

> > "Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts
>to whine.

> > "They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place
>or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
>husband says.

> > "But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

> > "I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I
>want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who
>you're pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his
>children."

> > "Daddy...he kills them?"

> > "Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

> > "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next
>door neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

> > "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to
>get involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop
>him," my husband says.

> > "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

> > "WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.

> > "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask
>for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller
>and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

> > "What Daddy?"

> > "He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down
>her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on
>fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in
>the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

> > "Daddy..."

> > "WHAT DO YOU DO?"

> > Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I'd close the
>blinds, Daddy."

> > My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks
>him..."Why?"

> > "Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help people who needs
>them...and they won't help.... You always say that neighbors are
>supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help
>me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself Daddy.....I can't
>look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things
>and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....
>so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it
>is not happening."

> > I start to cry.

> > My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window,
>looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and
>he says..."Son"

> > "Yes, Daddy."

> > "Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your front
>door..."WHAT DO YOU DO?"

> > My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He
>balls up his tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
>hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM
>HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA
>FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

> > I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs our son to
>his chest and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late to fight him,
>he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should
>have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his children and the old
>lady across the way.
> >
> > You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before
>it's too late." my husband whispers.

> > THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When
>good men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is the greatest EVIL of
>all.
> >
> > Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must
>understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove evil men
>from power so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are
>not afraid to look out our window so that my nine year old son won't
>grow up in a world where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds
>the atrocities in the world won't affect him.
> >

> > "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO
>DO IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!!
>SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL
>NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."
> >

> > This should be printed in every newspaper and posted in every school
>in America. Of course that won't happen so we'll use the internet.

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But Daddy, our President Bush wouldn't even report for his Guard Duty, what kind of a man is he Daddy????? Is he suppose to be a good example for me?? Didn't he kill alot of innocent people when ordered the troops to bomb Bagdad?????

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Originally posted by Dardadog:
That was a nice story. But I'm afraid one individual cannot free another. Independence and freedom can only be gained for yourself by yourself or you end up serving another master. If the Iraqi people were tired of tirany then they should have stormed the gates. I don't care if they were armed only with boards with a nail in the end. The armies of Saddam would have fell to pieces before shooting on their own families, friends, and neighbors. Granted. Many would have died. But a much truer freedom would have been achieved. The poor and downtrodden population of Iraq outnumbered the military by far. If they wanted, or even deserved freedom, they should have taken it for themselves. To win freedom is much more deserved than to be given or granted freedom. In the end, the Iraqi people would have been much more the proud of the accomplishment. The ******* needed to go, I do not dispute that. But when more Americans are dying for Iraqi freedom, than Iraqi's? I say BULLSH!t!!!!!!!!!

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